Please join us for our Fall 2019 Open House to learn about the Berkman Klein Center, our amazing community and our Harvard friends. Berkman Klein faculty, fellows, and staff look…
Featuring Ruha Benjamin on Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
VIDEO & PODCAST: Ruha Benjamin presents the concept of the “New Jim Code" to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial…
VIDEO & PODCAST: Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human…
How services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force
The social media have been accused of contributing to everything from terrorism to genocide. They have also been the only space in which activists and journalists at risk are…
A Book Talk with author David Weinberger and Joi Ito
VIDEO & PODCAST: In his new book, Everyday Chaos, David Weinberger points to accepted ways we work on the Internet that in fact undo our old assumptions about how the future works…
PODCAST & VIDEO: Berkman Klein community members will share their research, passions, and musings in 5 minute Ignite talks. These topics may range from misinformation online to…
Insights from a decade of multi-stakeholder collaboration (and an argument with Steve Jobs)
PODCAST & VIDEO: In conversation with Chinmayi Arun, David Sullivan draws upon a decade of work with technology companies (and a heated argument with Steve Jobs) to offer insights…
Told in the sinister style of a neon, cyberpunk thriller, The Cleaners charts social media’s evolution from a shared vision of a global village to a dangerous web of fake news,…
Featuring Kate Klonick and Thomas Kadri with members of the BKC community
PODCAST & VIDEO: We're never going to get a global set of norms for online speech but do the platforms pick our global values and constitutionalize them? Something to tie them to…
PODCAST & VIDEO: The delay between call and response has always been a vital piece of the messages we send. In this talk, Farman and Gasser discuss the impact that technology has…
Featuring Dr. Jon Cornwall, Centre for Early Learning in Medicine
Digital innovation is transforming health care, and the amount of digital health care data being generated will likely have increasing research utility over time. Despite the…
